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Cultimbu tuitiirtf. VOL. XIX. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 15, 1877. NO. 142 THE BELLIGERENTS. FIUHT at KABa. RUSSIANS WAS* AROUND KARS, ATTACK THE PLACE AMD ABE TERRIBLY REPULSED— BU881AK8 EXPECTED TO 0B0S8 THE DANUBE AT ONCE—TURKS CAPTURE CRETAN POW- DEB—RUSSIANS O'SOASMANS REFUSE TO FIGHT THE MOHAKMKDANS—TURKS WIN THE DUCA PASS IN MONTENEORO. BATTLE BEPORE KARS. London, Jane 14.—Buster's Telegram Company have received ills following dis patch : Constantinople, Wednesday evening.— The Saltan is staying at the Ministry of War awaiting the news from Kars, where a great batt le is progressing. CROSSING OF DANUBE EXPECTED. The Daily News' Vienna dispatch hcs the following: Certain signs point to Thursday or Friday next as the date of crossing the Danube. Jnst before that operation takes'place, it is expeoted the Czar will issue a manifesto. ASKED FOB AUTHORITY TO TREAT. It is rumored that Lofort Pasha has re quested the Hnitan to entrust him with a peace mission to PeoiBter. MONTENEORO. A special to the Daily Telegraph from Vienna of Wednesday says Suliman Pasha started yesterday to raviotualing Niosiea for a year. The Telegraph’s Batoum dis patch states that the Russians are pushing seige workR. Beinforcements are greatly needed. Without relief the troops there will beoome tired out. Turkish offloers are despondent. Constantinople, June 14.—An offioial telegram dated, June 13th, Bays Suliman Pesha hpa forced the entrance of Doga pasB after'h sanguinary battle, and is ad vancing on Niesio. The Montenegrins are in full retreat. RUSSIAN LOAN. London, June 14.—The Times in its financial column says the ltussian loan of $73,000,000, the Imperial r'lase author! zing whioh was published at St. Peters burg yesterday, is said to have been orig inally offered to housos here, and refused. It is now to be issued at Paris and Berlin. It is stated that the issue prioe is seventy per cent., and that the syndicate of bank ers have taken the loan at a net prioe so far below this figure as to leave ample margin, in faoe of the foot that an international foroed loan of 200,000,000 roubles has also been decreed. This borrowing does in deed indioate rapid exhaustion. DANUBE TO BE CROSSED IN JULY—TUP IS TO BE FOOT ID. The Times’ correspondent at Buohr-est telegraphs: The Bnssians and Turks have oonstruoted strong batteries on op. posits shores of the Danube at Saturnou and Isaktobi, where the Bnssians crossed in 1828. The immense mass of material whioh the Bnssians are moving toward the Danube can scarcely be lodged in the depots on the river before the first of July. It is, therefore, soaroely probable that any attempt will be made to cross before that month, and this supposition is strengthened by the present state of the Danube. The enemy will certainly be on the alert on account of the Czar’s arrival at headquarteis, and therefore, instead of the Czar’s arrival,as thought by some being an indication of immediate aotivity, it is much more probable that it will be allowed to lose its awaken'-rg effect on the Turks, and they will be suf< feted to relapse into their usual lethar- gio state. I do not believe the Bu'siana will cross at the, earliest moment praoti cable ; but probably affer the first r’arm, when the aotivity, aroused by their ap pearanoe in dose proximity to the Dan ube, has subsided. TURKS IDVAMOE IN ASIA—ATTACK ON KARS < FOILED. Ebzeboum, June 14.—The Turks, after occupying Olti, marched in advanoe of Ardahan. The Iinsain detachment had been sent from Ardah-u. The left een- tre, twelve battalions of troops, a field battery and four mountain guns, have left Delibaba to attack a oolr-nn of ‘he Bus Rian left wing before Toprak Kcleh. ATTACKS ON KARS REPULSED. Constantinople, June 14.—Three at tacks were made on Friday by the lius- sians against Fort Towers, whioh was erected in 1855 to strengthen the defenoe of Fort Vdi Paohi, whioh Is the key to Kars. Other returned attacks followed on Baturday but the result is unknown. MONTENEGRINS DEFEAT! ). A dispatoh from Lieutenrnt General Mehped Ali, dated June 12, announces the defeat of the Montenegrins' at Atohina. TOBFEDO ATTACKS ON A MONITOR. London, June 14.—A ilutaehuk dig- Patoh received yesterday saya last night a Party of Bnssians, near Maretin, attempt ed an attaek in boats npon a Turkish monitor. The latter, with the help of a land battery, beat them off. To-day an other appeared in the islands, but the Tnrke compelled the enemy to retrdst. Both affairs were considered feints to find out the position of the Ti"kiah batteries. The second edition of the Standard Publishes a dispatoh from ita special oor- 'eapondent with Mnkhtar Pasha’s camp, dated Seeivin Ethel Seeivin, Jnne 12th, Whioh says: Reports have arrived from Km* that the lioseians havo amassed •round Kars all the t -oops which tb»y brought from Ardahan, Gnmrg, Kagis- jjume and Boarieamiobe for several days. They have attempted to storm the ports of Aihmtz and Karadagh, but on every oo- B ** io €(*ey were repulsed. On Baturday they made desperate ef- take pomeeeton of some of the “•[fihta, when the garrison of Kan made •jwtio in force with field artillery and t"X*ed the Russians with great lorn. There are no Unarian soldiers between OUi and Erzeroom. Mnkhtar Pasha’s pickets entered from hie camp at Zewin to Olti on one side and to Erzeroom on the other. BUS8IAN ACCOUNTS OF XABS. St. Petersdubo, Jnne 14.—An official telegram from Maxro, abont eight miles Northeast of Kan, dated yesterday, an nounces that the Turks are attempting to form counter approaches, and are con stantly making sorties. The Buieian bat teries have been very successful in frua- tratiog all these attempts. A sortie was yesterday repulsed with heavy lose to the Turks. Seven Russians were elightly wounded. TURKEY ON IUIZ CANAL. London, June 14.—A dispatoh from Constantinople to the Times aaye that the Porte is expected to reply to the English notification, regarding the Suez Canal, that it ooneidere the oanal Turkish prop erty, and as Turkey has the right lo fight her enemies on the high aeas, she has ob viously the right to oppose them on her own territory; at the same time she reoognizes the great importance of the eanal to the whole world, and will try to prevent it from beooming the aoene of hostilities by occupying each end with trrops, so as to prevent the entrance of any Russian ships. CIRCASSIAN REVOLT. OampCeidin, June .14.—The Oiroassiaus in the Russian service numbering six cav alry regiments, having refused to operate againBt their Mohammedan brethren have been sent from the main oolnmn towards Bayazida. The Rnaaiant who retired from Penneok, Olti and Soghanln have gathered round Kars. PEACE RUMOBS DISMISSED. Constantinople, June 14.—The Turk ish newspapers in referring to the peace rumors, lately onrrent are strongly adverse to pesos and dismiss the enbjeot as un worthy of dieenmion. RUSSIAN PROVISION FOR SICK AND WOUNDED. Special lo Enquirer-Sun.] Berlin, Jnne 14.—The Russians have organized fifteen field hospitals contain ing altogether 20,000 beds, to be distribu ted over llonmania and adjoining dis tricts. This provision for siok and wound ed is thought sufficient for ell emergen cies. AT BUCHAREST. Special lo Enquirer-Sun.] Vienna, June 14.—Political Corres pondence has a telegram from Bucharest that Prinoo Gortsohakoff and Gen. Igna- tieff intend to reside a time at Buohareat. MILAN EN ROUTE. Orcova, June 14.—Prinoe Milan is here en route to Ploiesti. BATTERY F IIOTYD. Constantinople, Jana 14.—The Hus sians have ereoted a battery on an island oppoisito Rutschnok. BEK VIA. Belgrade, June 14.—A decree has been issued oonvoking the Sknptiohina in extraordinary session at Kragnjavalz on July let. WASHINGTON. ASSISTANT TREASURER FRENCH GIVES AN OPINION. SECRETARY SHERMAN SAYS IT IS A TECHNI CALITY—RUSSIAN UKASE—SILVER ISSUE FOB SMALL BILLS—NO APPOINTMENTS OF CONSEQUENCE. FRANCE. OOURSE OF THE LEFT. Special lo Enquirer-Sun.] v Paris, Jnne 14.—Leaden of the Left reaolved to maintain a perfect oslm in the Chamber on Baturday, when M. Gambol- ta's interpellation is presented, so tbst the debate may bear ail possible frnit. They also appeal to the Republicans not to go to the railway Btation to witness the arrival or departure of deputies, or make any demonstration. The irreconcilable Radios! leader M. Modier DeMontjan has promised not to speak in Saturday’s de bate and will leave the direction of pro ceedings to other groups of the Left. INCITING WORKMEN TO strike. Special to Enquirer-Sun.] Paris, Juno 14.—It is reported tbst meetings of members of the international society are being held on the Franoo. Belgian frontier with the objeot of incit ing workmen to striko. RUSSIAN FRIGATES SAILED. Special lo Enquirer-Sun ] Brest, Jnne 14.—Three Rnseian frig ales whioh have been lying in this harbor sailed to-day; destination is nnknown. THE VATICAN ASKED BUT MAI '* NO SIGN REGARDING BOMAPABTISTS. London, Jnne 14.—The Times’ Rome special reports a person of high position direotly inquired of the Holy Sea how it wonld look npon a Bnnapartist movement in France. On its reply a more or less energetic system of agitation wonld de pend, but the Vatican has made no eign, ENGLAND. BANQUET TO A1 IRIOANS. Liverpool, Jnne 14.—The American Chamber of Commeiee deoided to give banquet to the delegatee of the Interna tional Cotton Convention. RACE FOB GOLD CUP. London, Jnne 14.—The race for the gold onp, the great event of the day. was won by Potrarob, Skylark second, Coo mosaic third. SUEZ CANAL. Special lo Enquirer-Sun. 1 London. Jnno 14.—In the Commons Sir Stafford Northcote, Ohanoellor of the Exchequer, replying to a question stated Russia's reply to England’s intimation for bidding tbo exercise of belligerent rights in the Suez Canal was to the effect that Russia wonld neither blockade, interrupt nor menace tbo navigation of the canal n any manner. He addod repliaa from tha Porte end Khedive to British oommnnica tiona on the anbjaot had not yet been re aived. t < HaaipMn Loaves far New York Special lo Ike Enquirer-Sun.] Charleston, Jnne 14.—Gov. Hampton will leave Columbia for Naw York to morrow night, GEORGIA CONVENTION. OABBIED BY 10,000—NORTH GEORGIA UNAN IMOUS FOB IT. Atlanta, Jnne 14.—The majority for the Convention will reaeb 10,000. The oonntiee in North Georgia are almost unanimous for the Convention. BONDS PAYABLE IN GOLD. Washington, June 14.—Mr. French, Assistant Secretary of the Treasnry, has given an opinion to Secretary Sherman to the effeot that ali United States bonds, issued since date when silver was demons tized are payable in gold and not in silver. This opinion has the approval of Seoretary Sherman. FRACTIONAL CURRENCY OUTSTANDING. The Oommissionere estimate the frac tional currency ont of oironlation from loss or dostrnotion at eight million dollars. is believed Sherman will issue silver change to this amount. ILLICIT DISTILLERS. Commissioner ltanm received a letter signed by abont fifty prominent citizens of Southwestern Virginia, among whom are two county judges, two distriot atlor- Dies and other offloials, asking that a suf ficient foroe be sent to co operate with them in bringing illioit distillers to jns- ttoe. SHERMAN ON FBENOH’s LETTER. Washington, June 14.—Secretary Sherman says the letter printed this morning on the anbjeot of the payment of bonds in gold, and signed by H. F. Frenob, Assistant Seoretary, is not to be regarded as the offioial nation of the Treasury Department, as it was intended only as an expreision of the iudividnal views of Mr. Frenoh. The Secretary has not taken, nor will he take any notion in the matter, aa to do eo would seem to preclude the aotion Congress might deter mine to take on the enbjeot. RUSSIAN UKASE. Tbo State Department baa a copy of the ukase (official) famished by Russia. It allows subjocts of nentral Slates to ooniinno their oommeroiel intereonrse with Russian porta and cities, provided they observe the laws of the empire, and the prineiples of internatienal laws, so far as this is allowable by the conditions of military operations. SILVER ISSUE. The issue of one and two dollar green backs waa discontinued ! n the Treasnry in this city mainly to indnoe banks and indi viduals to take and pat into oirouiation silver ooins. Silver is now going ont of the Treasnry at the rate of a million per month, and the fall greenback fund of ten millions of dollars, aatborizgd by law is ao well aaenred that the Treasury will probably soon resume shipments of one and two dollar billa. NORTH CAROLINA POSTAL AFFAIRS. Gen. B. II. Dockery, ex-member of Congress from North Carolina, who has been in the oity several days in oonsulta- tion with the President and Cabinet, he had an interview with the Postmaster General to-dry,relative to postal affairs in that State, whioh was most satisfactory. Speoial agent J. O. Hester, under instnes lions from the Department of Justice, leaves to-night for North Carolina to summons witnesses in the oase of U. S. Deputy Marshal Franks, who is under oharges here preferred against him by Marshal R. M. Donglass of the Western District of North Carolina, for fraud against the U. S. Government. Henry B. Niobolls is commissioned postmaster at Norfolk. SHERMAN WANTS SILVER SAME AS PAPER DOLL'1. Secretary Sherman’s opinion seems to be that all that is necessary is to make the silver dollar a legal tender, precisely as the paper dollar now is, and let tho amount of coinage be regalated by the wants of the people, to those who desire to exchange paper for silver. He wonld give the fullest opportunities, and he thinke that there wonld be no tronbie abont what sort of onrrenoy they have. The opinion of Mr. Fronch is not an of ficial one. DEAD. Gen. O. F. llenningsen is dead. JODGE LOOHRANE FAVORS JUDGE WARNER FOB BUPBEIAE COURT. Special lo Enquirer-Sun.] Washington, Jnne 14.—Jndge Loeh- rane, of Georgia, is qnoled in high oiroles that he is no oandidate himself for the Supreme Benoh, bnt if any Georgian is appointed bo favors Judge Warner, preB ent Chief Justice, as the ablest conslitu> tional lawyer in the State. SYNDICATE NOTICE. The syndicate gives notioe that from date until Jnly ICtb, at 3 o’clock p. m., they will seoeive subscriptions for the fonr per cent, fnnded loan at par and ac crued interest in gold coin. Tbo bonds will be ready for delivery July 2d prox. CUSHING RESIGNS. Tbe compliments of a correspondence haa passed between Mr. Evarts and Caleb Cashing, in whioh Cashing's resignation of the Spanish Mission is acoopted, to take effect at Ibis date. Bridge Blown Down by n Hurri cane, Special to Enquirer-Sun.] Springfield, Mass., June 14.—The covered bridge over the Connecticut river, betweon Northampton and Hadley, waa blown over by a hnrrioane this afternoon. An nnoompieted bridge of tbe Maasachn- Betts Central Railroad waa also demol ished. Six teams were In the bridge when it went over. Mrs. Sailiven was instantly killed. Sheriff Enoe Cook, of Hailiey, waa badly out in the head, and Wm. Smith, of Amherst had a shoulder dislocated. Two horses were taken from tbe mins alive. The bridge was 1,124 feet long, and the newest portion of it has been built abont fifteen years. Numer ous tobacco sheds were blown down by the gale. Kallroad Wreck. Special lo Enquirer-Sun.J Indianapolis, Ind., June 14.—The fast train on the Pittsbnrg, Cincinnati and St. Lonis Railroad due here late last night was wrecked u short distance east of this oity. A switch being, partly ohanged and a oroBs tie wedged between tbe rails, tbe engine, baggage, express and mail ears were thrown from the track badly dam aged, but the paasonger coaches and sleeping cars did not leave the traok. Earnest B Cole, postal olerk, was the only petHon seriously hart, but a nnmber reoeived slight injuries. Every effort will be made to disoovor tbo perpetrators of the outrage and bring them to justice. EX-REBEL FELICITATIONS. TOOMBS ON THE NEW OF THINGS. ORDER WHY HI TOLERATES PRESIDENT HAYES— HOW HE STILL PROUDEY WORSHIPS THE CONFEDERATE FLAG AND GLORIES IN THE RE-ASSERTION OF STATE SOVEREIGNTY. Storm In New Yorjk. Special to Enquirer-Bun.] Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Jnne 14.—A fu rious storm of rain and hail accompanied by a terrible wind storm, passed over the city this afternoon. The damage to frnit and growing orops are heavy. A nntnber of buildings were etrnck by lightning, bnt no one was killed. Trees wore blown down end immense quantities of glaei broken. ST. LOUIS. FAILURE OF COMMERCIAL FIBE INSURANCE COMPANY—SENATOR BOOT LOSSES $100,- 000, AND HIS SON, THE PRESIDENT, $00,000. St. Louis, Jnne 14.—A dispatoh says tboro is considerable sensation among the stockholders of tbe Commercial Fire In surance Company, which made an assign ment on Tuesday. Joseph Bogy, son of United States Senator Bogy, was Presi dent of the Company, and ita aative manager. Senator Bogy, was the heaviest stockholder. He slates he is a loser to the extent of $100,000 cash, and that the disaster will ruin him financially, if his creditors are not indulgent. Joseph Bogy loses $00,000, including a full mortgage on his residence, and all his property. Joseph Bogy was also President of the Exchange Bank of this oity, and to-day resigned that position. His friends rep resent that he is completely erushed. RACES. AT OOLUMRUS, OHIO. Special lo Enquirer-Sun.] Columbus, Ohio, Jane 14.—Three- quarter mile—Entight won, Bill Banuders sooond, in l:lCj. Mile beats—First, Belle Dilion won, Keno second, in 1:48}. Dillon took the second in 1:48}, and tho third aid race in 1:40}. Two miles—Long Bow won the rooe in 3:43, Glasgow sooond. TBOTTING AT DOSTON. Special to Enquirer-Sun.] Boston, Juno 14.—Beaoon Park—2:29 olass, won by Martha Washington,straight heats; Driver 2d. Time 2:21}, 2:25}, 2:20}. 2:34 raoo—won by Highland Grey, tak ing the last throe beats; Fearnangbt 2d, and Queoohy Maid 3d. Time 2:28, 2:20, 2:29}, 2:30}, 2:32. Foarnaugbt took tbe first two. Jerome l*nrk Knee*. Special lo Enquirer-Sun.] Jerome Park, June 14.—Mile—Explo sion won, ltodamantbas 2d, Hertral 3d. in 1:45}. Mile and a half for threo year old filliea —Idalia won, Soozoo 2d, Oriole 3d, in 2:41}. Milo and an eighth heats—First, Am- basil, Conner, Mister of Mercy, in 2:00} seoond, same ordor, in 2:02}. Milo and three-quarters—ran in driving thnnder storm—Vioeroy won, Rappaban nook 2d, Galway 3d, in 3:13}. Trotters. Omaha, Jnne 14.—Bndd Doble, with Goldsmith Maid, Bodine and Volney passed through hero bound eastward yes' terdsy. GERMANY. bishop remov: >. Berlin, Jr\o 14.—The Ecolosioatiei Court has sentenced the Bishop of Lim burg to removal frofc office. Naceweded to tbe Crown. Special lo Enquirer-Sun.] Darmstadt, June 14.—The Official Journal annonoes the accession of Prinoo Lonis, of llesie, to the tl—ooe of the Grand Dnoby of Hesse undar the title of Louis IV. tkarxed Wttb lerslni Passes, Philadelphia, Jnel4.—8. F. W'lson the railroad ticket scalper, is held in $5, 000 bail on the obarge of forging passes and conspiracy. Bancroft Davis Uels tbe llermss Mission. New Yobk, June 14.—A cable speoial says Bancroft Davit has received the German nr'saion. Weather. Washington, Juno 14.—Indications. Mouth Atlanlio Mtates, stationary pressure, higher temperature, southeast winds, partly oloudy and oloudy weather with rain area*. The Indianapolis Journal has prooured a report of the speeoh whioh Robert Toombs, of Georgia, mode in response to a serenade at tho Arkansas Hot Springs on Thursday night, May 31. Gen. Toombs was introduced by lion. M. J. Henderson, and, after the applause bad Babsided, spoke substantially os follows : “I think you for your kindly greeting, and I assure you I appreciate your kiud- ness to me personally. I have bad many raauy evidences of this good will iu the six or seven Stales through which I have passed siuoe I left my native Georgia. Although they have been pleasant to me, especially from the source whioh they eame, yet they have not been unmixed with sadness. Most of the genera tions in whioh I havo livod hare passed away ; many of them havo been gathered to their fathers in qniet and peace. Many, after long and nsefnl lives, many of them in bumble life, have been taken away in peace. They have gath ered around them the drapery of their oonobes and laid down to pleasaut dreams; bnt a large portion of the men of my gen eration have passed sway in the tempest of the storm. Devoted to liberty and patriotism, they have gone out in the roar and thunder of battle. [Applanso.] They have joined that great army of martyrs who havo fongbt for liberty and oountry from generation to generation, for thousands of years. They have joined them on tho high eternal plains where glory keeps eternal watch over the bivon- aos of the dead. Bat they have left be hind them sorno of their old comrades in the great straggle—they hsve left some survivors of iheir glories and objects; and, alas, they havo left widows, mothers, sons and daughters. I oongratolato your Mtate on many ao- oonnta. She, in common with many of her sister Mtates, after tbo anfforings of the war, for fonr years spoliation, U s by the wisdom, prudenco and moderation of yonr servants (among whom is my distin guished friond, whom you have honored yourselves in naming this oounty aftor, who, aftor tho Mtate had boon wrested from spoilers’ bands, and though poor and battered, yet with tbe heavens above yon; with strong arms, stout hearts; with soil boundless in fertility, you are again ready to straggle for prosperity and wealth, seonrity, liberty, stability and order. I congratulate the Moathern Mtates that after all tho wasto and devastation and rain whioh have overspread them, especially oar slaters who have recently emerged from ohaos, after having lost tho glorious Confederate ting, whioh I am proud to warship now as I did on the battle fields of Virginia, Maryland and Georgia, tbat they are again the masters of their own destiny. I congratulate them upon tbe ohange after the defeat and disaster and wreok and rain of ton years, that they are tbs mssteas of themselvos, and as ready again to defond right and liberty and republican govei ament. It is true tbat the old constitution and all those allodiums of liberty thrown around us lave perished. It is true we have what is called a new constitution which I re gard as no constitution at all, and the amendments I detest and abhor, and will never reoognize them ns a funds mental law. But we have the traditions of liberty, we have tbe traditions of onr English ancestors, which neither defeat nor disaster can eradicate, and are atill ready as ever to maintain those glorious privileges. I congratulate also oar fellow-citizens of the North. It has taught them some wiso lessons. Instigated by the lust of gain, under the guise of pioty, did they many wicked things. I thank God thero is an avenging Nemesis tbat follows tbo traok of revengi ul viotory to right wrongs and punish evil doers. They have fouud out tbat the men who pratieed crime, des potism, snd inflictod rain to tbe Mouthorn Rates, want to praotieo the artH thoy havo learned npon their own, oonni'ymen. Like the children of death, bngotten in sin, when thoy had destroyed us, thoy went home, and have sot about eating tbe vitals of their own people. Now throughout tbe land we boar tho wail of want and misoiy genoraliy over Ibis oountry. But evei./thing is not lost as long as wo have snob a country and men fit to live in and govern it. Nations have waged war before; battles have been lost and won; countries have been devastated, bnt tkoBe who have been trne to the prin ciples of good government have risen again, nnoonquered and nnoonqnerablo. I congratulate onr friondsof tho North, too, for tbe greater re son that they have fouud that there *s no safety for the pub lic except in tbe great principle of Mtate sovereignty. The pooplo of the Mtates delegated to the General Government a lortion of their sovereign powers, others .hey vested in their Mtate governments, and the brlanoe they held themselves— they haven't trusted them to either gov ernment—and tbe destrnotion of either one or tbe other was tho deal motion of one of tbo greatest and strongest safe guards of liberty and law. In tearing down those bnlwarka they hsve opened the alnice-gates of corruption and filled the land with thousands of ill-regulated, dan- gerons corporations, excisemen and people who live not by labor, bnt by frand,and are purely national, abhor sectionalism, and steal from all alike: I thank those pa- tiiots throughout tbe North who have aided ns in onr groat struggle in the esnse of reform of publio evil. In a very large majority of tbo new Mtatos, tbe wards of the nation bogan to see the right; at ieaBt they began to feel oppression—they had sens* enough to know that when taxes oatue like a postilenoo they did not os cape ; the law took penoe from poverty as pounds from woaltb. I voted for neither Tilden nor Hayes, snd therefore I oan speak to you, fellow-citizens, with impartiality. Tbo only oonsolation I can find is that tbe evils dono have been so general that good may now come of it. Let us go baok to tbe old prineiples. After forty years of public service I oould tell all I know of government in a single paragraph, and it would not then be half as long as some sontencos in one of Meo- rotary Evarts’ speeches. Government was not mado for the few, bnt for all. It was mado bocanse wioked, bad, nnjust men wonld not do justice to their neighbors. The good men of tbe eonntry said: “Let ns got together and establish a legislatr-e to make laws, a judiciary to interpret them, and an exeo- ntive to execute them. With theee prin ciples clone we will got peace and secur ity; wo will make the oountry secure, and then we will let everybody alone; au<1 that is the whole science of government. To keep tho country from invasion and from domostio tronbie, administer jnstieo be tween man and man; draw the trne divid ing line liolween powers of the Govern ment aud the rights of the individual man, and then let evory man pnrsue his own interest. It is a great mistake to suppose that the interests of one honest man ever oonfliot with the interests of another honost man. ThiB is the expe rience of all the material world in all of God's works. Think yon the Great Father of us all has mado harmony in this great universe everywhere else and failed in this, tho greatest neod of man ? No, no, no I It is not trne. Heaven forbid it. God's wisdom, power, meroy, ali for bid it. When yon spend money taken from tho Treasury for the benefit of one olaas or part of the oountry, yon are committing a great wrong. Wrong always comes home to roost. We see it now. I have heard it all my life, and C7 years of experience has provon the fact to me. I do not like tho prineiples of tbe present so- osllcd Deinnoratio party, but I like less the principles and praetiaes of the Repub lican party. The Demooratio parly have not had recently a chance to have any praotieo at all, and thoy took the host tl oy oould get, aud that was bad principles. Hayes got in, not by his own sot—ho is there by tho folly or incapacity of the present Democratic party. llayes is President <(« facto. I paid littlo at tention to his promises, but he has takon liis post, and carried thorn ont. He has done alt that Tilden oonld have done so far ss I -u's'vna and Month Uarolina are concerned. He has given them baok that pearl of great price, bo has given back that jewel, tint life-blood of good government, whioh makes all else E OBsibie—State self government. lie has ronght baok tbo ark of the Government and plaoed it where it belongs. lie* has oommenoed civil servioe reform ; he has ordered his offloers to torn oat bad men, and to tnrn ont nseioss offi cials, who food npon the people as drones in tho hives; snd I applaud him for these things. I will approve of whatever good he does, and will oondemn whatever ho does of evil. This is tho duty of evory patriot. la it not time that wo should sink tho partisan into tbo patriot ? Tbe Mouth never sought any pecuniary advan tage from the Government of tho United Mtates ; she ought to seek none now. I was in Oongroxa soventocn years, and in my own distriot in Eastorn Georgia, and I say to you now that I never got a dollar ont of tho Treasury for one single spot in that distriot. I was not sent there to steal. Every dollar taken from the Treasury for any one particu lar locality is an injustice to the roBt of the oountry, and I can tell yon, to the glory of my const! rents, that in tho sev enteen years of my public sets lee in Oon- greea, no man in Georgia asked me to do it. Wo havo a grand eonntry ourselves —a goodly land, a magnificent horitage, ail that a good man needs iR this world. We osn be quite prosperous and happy if we will stand by tho old landmarks and sustain good progress. Let ns hang onr banners on o outer ws'l, neither cha grined by trohobery, d'aheartetied by de sertion, nor overawed by dofeat. Let us display a magnanimity as great as tha oc casion, as prolonged as the conflict—all then will he well for us and our obildren, and ohildrou's obildren 'Till time shall be no more." THE HAUUAUE SMASH A H’* STOKV BOW HE HANDLED THE THUNK OF A NEWLY- MARRIED COUPLE OF UNCERTAIN AGE. “Where is the baggage master 7” the reporter asked a dappor little fellow in a blue uDiform and a gold-handed oap at tbe I’en: ylvuiiiu Railroad depot, a day or two ago. “I am ono of thorn.” “Yon 7" tho reportor said enquiringly, and then looked him ovor. “What I" he thought himself, this iittie pin and needle fellow, the trunk smasher of the road 1 No. He oan only be the deceitful dnm ray, put here to deludo travellers with the belief that thoir baggage will be handled like a oan of i‘tro-glyoeriue. The mau with the iron fiat snd steel boot, who jerks the life out of a trunk by a twist of the wrist, must he behind somewhere.'' Just then a carriage drove up, a lady got out, aud a gentleman aHked for ahecks for a moderate sized trunk for Chicago. The dappor littlo fellow looked at their tiokots, put a cheok on the trunk, aud then by amystorious twist, and without seeming to movo bis body, skilfully roll ed it along the long baggage room. As he reached the traok, on whioh other tranks bad been loaded, ho gave a little yank, and the trunk bounded up from the door. Another movement, too rapid for the re porter to see what it was, and the trauk lay on the truok, without so muoh ns a pin soratah on it. Then the baggage master eame hack, as fresh and as clean as a fancy bar-tendor. ' Whero's your baggage 7” ho askod tho marvelling reporter. I bnv'nt any, Bnt how is it you han dle that trunk so easy 7" The little man looked at the reporter politely, bnt inquisitively. The reporter told him who be was, and that he wanted to know something about tho eeorets of tbe business, and whether they wore get ting ready to smash a pile of tranks this summer. Then a sad look crept ovor his faoa. “Smashing's gone by, at least here abouts, ” ho said. “There isn’t any more fun in the business saoh as tha old man tell me there used to bo. We don’t have any chance to study people* and get to know them by their tranks as tho old fel lows did. There isn’t any life, not a bit of free and easy work about this thing now-a-days. A fellow, if ho is going into baggaging, onght to havo begun twenty years ago. Than there was fun. I didn't know myself—only what I hear the old boys ssy.” “Then yon don’t oil up your arms and practioo with tbo dumb boils, and kiok the sand bags, no as to got in good working trim to maater a trunk 7" S“No, indoed: we’ve been trained very differently. It’s gone to the otbor ex treme. Tboy expect us to wear a oloan shirt, a Piccadilly collar, with a white tie, use perfumed soap on our hands, and to keep our boots blaoked. On the cars we oan put on a eslico jacket to keep the dost off from our shirt bosoms. Bnt you no tioe a baggageman don't show himself now any more that ho can holp when the trains stop. You can jnst see his head out of the oar door when he’s nnloading a trank. Then wo have to learn bow to got a pur chase on a trank, so as to twist it around on one oorner. and make all the strain oome on that oorner and on onr wrists, and a aoratoh on a trunk now shows that some green hand has had hold of it. . They'll expect os to learn the languages I fel>4 tim next. Oh, yes, we’re seientifio, bnt there isn’t any fun about it any more," and tbe poor fellow sighed. “Let me take your band," he continu ed. He gave the reporter's hand a wrench that made it foel as though it hail got into the screw of an ocean steamer. “That’s what it dooa for us any way. The old boys oould have knocked your head off at one blow, bnt they conldn't squeeze like that.” “Last year, the Centennial, yon know, was a busy one for ns, and we had more regular cowsheds of trunkB to handle; bnt we managed moBt of them, exoept hair tranks, I swan; but we did hate to get hold Of a hair trunk. Yon oan’t get any purohase on them. They are so slippery that you asu’t do anything with them, and the life <ron handles ont the fingers. It looks now as though travel would be light this summer. The hot ape 1 turned out a few, bnt business isn’t going to be very driviug. If you want to know the difference between baggaging now and a few years ago see some of the old boys.” Now, this little talk was a revelation, and it Beeiueil a good thing to follow np tbe disclosure, and see whether the tradi tional baggage smasher was really pissing away like so many other of the delightful old institutions whioh civilization, and es pecially railroad civilization, has destroy ed. At the Erie, tbe Central Now Jersey, and the Grind Central depots the reporter found tho name dapper little men. Some of them would talk a little abont business, bnt alt wero sad. They hear stories about tho old days, when the smashers looked on the trank as a person, and felt free to aot out their real feelings toward it. They see that the veterans learned a lot of human nature from trunks, and oonld tell at a glaoe what sort of a person repre sented a particular piece of baggage, and then they would troat that pariianlar piece in jnst the way to disturb that person. No, tho now men are getting to be ma chines. They do their work perfeotly, . neatly, and nniformly; bnt the monotony of it shows itself on their habits. Ask them if they expect muoh summer travel; ' many Maratoga tracks to handle ; if they are in good oonditlon to grapple with the throo dockers—they smile sadly. They don’t seem to expoet anything : their training tenohos them that a Maratoga differs from a bog-skin valise only in the method of treatment, rnd they eare no more for a “ir. . decker than for a carpet bag. They have mr ired the bnsineaa soil itifior 'ly, and It b- i mastered them— knocki d p’l tbe individuality out of them. Mo I eoutdu't learn from them whether a big or ’’ttle summer travel is expeoted. If yon want to find a smasher of tbe old stamp in New York you have got to look Borne timo for him. The oonntry roads are as .all of them as ever. The soien- t'flo treatment hasn't reached them yet. Ontside of New York yon are in a great danger of finding yonr hair oil, polishing np that white dnok suit, or beat bonnet jammed in at the crown, or a hinge gone, or any of those little exoitements whioh have given a piqnanoy to travel so'long as ever. The reporter fonnd one of the old sta gers, however—a man who had handled ooe of the first tranks put on the New Havon road. This relie is not sad bnt mad, and it took somo coaxing to get him to talk. “Yes, he said, “yes, it's all changed. Better for the trank, worse for the man, and worse for the traveller. A person who behaved himself and got a decent trank never had any trouble with it. One or two dents, a few scratches, learned folks a lesson; and those trank makers wore as ranch to blame for it as We didn't have to get trained. All wo needed was a good pair of arms. We worked by sheer strength, not 8oienoe,and there was fun in it. Why, we got so we oould tell tho minute we looked at a trunk what sort of a person owned it. I oould tell an old maid's tmfc at sight. I can't tell yon how. There waa a sort of look about it. If the trank showed her a olever sort of person it never got auy hard usage, hut if she was a sour, pep- permiut oaudy eating one,tbat trunk gen erally eame out of the oar worse than it went in. We used to love to get hold of a dandy's. How we'd shake it up and laugh to think bow he'd look when he got to bis hotel! We’d make it look worse than a cutlery drummer’s. We used to fight shy of drummers' tranks. They knew the ropes. Then there were tbe codfish, six cent aristocratic fools. They always carried the biggest trunks. That's why they got banged up so. It wasn’t be cause the trunk was big, though everybo dy supposed so, It was because only stuck up folks traveled with Saratogas. Why, tbe real gentlemen and ladies never made much splurge with trunks when thoy traveled. I never got stock but onoe with a trank. One was pnt on a few years ago tbat we oonldn't make ont. I thought it was some stingy old bachelor's; tho other boys swore it was su old maid’s.” Here the old smasher laughed out right. ‘Whose was it?" the roporter asked. ‘Well, we were all right. The con ductor came into the baggage car and told ns he’d got tbe eat bridal oouple on tbe train. An old maid and a bach. The old maid bad boon in failing health, and the doctor had told her tbat carriage riding wonld do her good. She waa cloae and wouldn't pay for a team, so she hit on a plan of going to allthefnnerala. She went to every funeral for a year, and so got free rides. Well, she met the old linffor at a funeral, and told him she was going to another the next day. Ho was thero,and they rodo together to the grave. He proposed when in a hook at a funeral. It was their trunk we had, and it looked as though it had hoen through the Rev olutionary war. It was tbe siokest looking trank I ever saw whon we got through with it. FRESH ARRIVAL 1 ‘ Black Laoe Moarfs $1.50 to $3. White “ “ $1, $2 and $3. Embroidered Swiss Muslins; Ladios' and Genta’ Colored Bordered llandkorohiefs; Ladies'Milk Ties; Laae Bibs; An elegant lino of Marseilles Suits; A large variety of Japanese Fans from 10c. to $1; Dress Buttons in new shades. tf Blanchard A Hill. AT COST I AT COST!! Kiiiuembor tbat we will offer for a short while onr entire stook of Spring and Mummer Dress Goods at oost and below cost. We mean business. tf Blanchard A Hill. W. A. 1.1TTLK, ATTORNEY AND OOUNSKLLOB-AT.LAW,
